MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	68.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A16
Motherboard	MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170422
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '18 at 22:46
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$88 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 91.9 1-Core 130 2-Core 263 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 507 69% 511 Pts	64-Core 517 32% 517 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2172 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	68.4% Good	Lighting 86.7 Reflection 83.9 Parallax 73.1 71% 81.2 fps	MRender 77.2 Gravity 77.2 Splatting 79.6 64% 78 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 128GB 14,793 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0616B0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1174 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 119 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 18 (A4) Unknown 100 100 31931 (A5) Unknown 100 100 93 (A6) Unknown 100 100 9 (A7) Unknown 100 100 60 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 82 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 56605 (F2) Unknown 100 100 60062 (F5) Unknown 100 100 86336	82.7% Excellent	Read 517 Write 434 Mixed 469 106% 473 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 4.83 102% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 39.8 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 3.59 52% 114 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 93%
Seagate ST320LM001 HN-M320MBB 320GB 6,367 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 523GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 88 3504 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4498 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8923 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1800 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 48 236224118827 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 115 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 4 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4830	66.2% Good	Read 108 Write 123 Mixed 107 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 2.72 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 51%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2009)-$60 42,987 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 523GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 151 129 1408 (04) Start/Stop count 75 75 25386 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 5 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26941 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4885 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 12760 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 422396 (C2) HDA temperature 98 82 45 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 29502 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	43.1% Average	Read 38.4 Write 112 Mixed 98.4 63% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.42 91% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 41%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 457GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 96 288 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4305274184 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1937 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 445 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 120 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180131332 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 52 706150437 (C2) HDA temperature 37 48 38654705701 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 25 288 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -138035953925039 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3162724641 (F2) Unknown 100 253 475711309	67.9% Good	Read 119 Write 118 Mixed 105 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.68 125% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 88%
Toshiba DT01ABA200V 2TB 2,433 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 405GB free Firmware: MZ4OABC0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 192 192 21486567609 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1066 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 82 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1151 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 227634315300 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	57.5% Above average	Read 97.5 Write 103 Mixed 84.6 71% 95 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.12 54% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD 4x4GB 3,476 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	80.2% Excellent	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 26.4 81% 28.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 32.6 SC Mixed 23.4 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 101%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	135x
Core i5-6600KIntel $88Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	36x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $125Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	7x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $599

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16